To: so_real
Either of the other two candidates would have won the seat, that is why conservatives like the tea parties and governor Palin tried to get the loser to drop out, but his vanity is too great.
Palin did manage to give us our only senate seat pick up that election, and also gave us Ted Cruz.
47 posted on
07/17/2014 11:35:50 AM PDT by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: ansel12
I hope Sarah Steelman runs again in 2018. I hope the conservatives rally around her early and she wins the primary. Were that to happen, I've no doubt she would win the general, and be a terrific Senator. I'd be pleased to vote for her myself. But this go around, the statistics were stacked against her. That was clear in the primary outcome. The GOP-E brigade should have abstained from helping the media bury Akin. McCaskill felt all she had to do was make popcorn and enjoy the circular firing squad ... and she was right.
51 posted on
07/17/2014 11:52:26 AM PDT by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: ansel12
Either of the other two candidates would have won the seat, that is why conservatives like the tea parties and governor Palin tried to get the loser to drop out, but his vanity is too great.
Perhaps that's what actually happened/would have happened. Maybe not. Any possibility SP made a mistake by getting involved in this race?
What would have been the outcome if the GOPe had gotten behind Akin then as fully as other GOPe Senate candidates now...such as Cochran?
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